Police investigations have opened into what has been registered as the 17th homicide for 2015.

On Sunday, August 30, 2015 about 5:00 a.m. officers from the Gros-Islet Police Station were dispatched to the Reduit Beach in Gros-Islet upon receiving certain information.

Upon arrival, the officers retrieved the body of a female near the Reduit Beach shoreline. The body, later identified as 52 year old, Sophia Delia Charles Didier of Reduit Gros-Islet was transported to the Victoria Hospital where she was pronounced dead by a medical doctor.

A post mortem examination conducted later that day on the body, revealed that she died as a result of asphyxiation (condition of being deprived of oxygen) secondary to drowning. The examination also revealed neck trauma and blunt trauma about the body.